Network Dictionary — Blessay

Blessay is a mer­ger of the words Blog and Essay. It describes a longer form of blog post­ing that con­tains fac­tual, researched inform­a­tion that is likely to bre presen­ted in a coher­ent, edu­cated fash­ion with sup­port­ing research, bib­i­lo­graphic details and so on.

In concept, a blessay is more that a simple spurt of ver­biage (as many of my blog posts are), but a coher­ent train of thought explor­ing a concept in some detail. Probably less than a full pre­pared essay or paper, but an attempt to provide coher­ent and rational con­sid­er­a­tion of the topic in hand.

I believe that Stephen Fry was the inventor of this word, and you def­in­itely take time to read his very fine, eru­dite blog.

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